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- Haitian Dances
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus charged himself with the mission of building a repertoire for guitar blending Haitian folk music and European classical music, much as Villa Lobos had... more
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- Musical Traditions of St Lucia / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 12/1/1993
- Features: CD
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- Jamaican Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jamaican singer and folklorist Louise Bennett sings Jamaican folk songs, work songs, dancing songs and banana-boat-loading songs. Amongst these songs are parables, cautionary tales and opportunities... more
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- First Flight: Early Calypsos From The Emory Cook Collection
- Artist:
  Mighty Sparrow
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 10/25/2005
- Features: CD
- Don't equate calypso with "party music." Mighty Sparrow's experiences in Port of Spain left him keenly aware of violence, rhetoric and social injustice, and that all comes pouring out in his songs:... more
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- Puerto Rico: Como El Filo Del Machete
- Artist:
  Andres Jiminez
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Cuba Va: Songs New Generation / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written, arranged, performed and produced in Cuba by the Experimental Sound Collective of ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries). Sung in Spanish, with illustrated booklet,... more
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- Children's Jamaican Songs and Games
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Louise Bennett leads irresistible ring games that have been the favorites of Jamaican children across generations. Many songs retain a specifically African or British flavor.
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- Vodun-Rada Rite Erzulie / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Dominican Republic 3 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Music from the Dominican Republic: Vol. 3, Cradle of the New World, continues in the vein of prior volumes in the series, offering songs that range from religious salves in praise of the Virgin Mary... more
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- Sparrow in Hi-Fi
- Artist:
  Mighty Sparrow
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This is another delectable set of calypsos composed and sung by the "Calypso King" Mighty Sparrow. Backed by "the Boys," a full orchestra, and featuring several stellar instrumental solos, these were... more
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- Calypso Exposed / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- If, after perusing the liner notes, the calypso on this compilation "still remains barren of meaning for the gentle listener, he is either blind, deaf, dead, or just a terribly mixed-up kid-what the... more
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- Songs Dances Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong
- Artist:
  Kim Loy Wong
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- When the British police in Trinidad-then part of the British West Indies-banned traditional bamboo stick bands around the time of World War II, young Trinidadians improvised, and the steel drum was... more
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- Real Calypso: 1927-1946 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation is an introduction to the golden age of calypso and to some of it's greatest exponents. The genre is known for it's incisive social commentary, and the songs on this album retain the... more
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- Mr. Gavitt: Calypsos of Costa Rica
- Artist:
  Walter Ferguson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso survives sporadically in Limon and Bocas del Toro (Panama), especially around Carnival time, in the spring. Elsewhere on the mainland, the calypso culture is gone, driven out by radios and... more
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- Calypso Rock Songs of Jamaica
- Artist:
  Horace Johnson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and... more
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- Dance Calypso / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- According to the liner notes, "Calypso is... a humor-coated pellet of un-camouflaged truth... taking the opportunity of saying something to somebody in song that you couldn't say in polite society...... more
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- Tiroro the Haitian Drummer
- Artist:
  Ti Roro
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Master drummer Tiroro performs traditional rhythms of Haitian vodou on a single drum, manipulating the drum into producing multiple pitches and timbres. This dynamic recording primarily consists of... more
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- Calypso Atrocities / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy, ballsy, outspoken, yes, but not exactly an "atrocity." Pay close attention to these calypso lyrics by Small Island Pride and Mighty Cypher.
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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... more
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- Folk Music of Jamaica / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of... more
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- Caribbean Dances / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Cruise the Caribbean during the mid-twentieth century heyday of "the society ballroom and the honky-tonk [music] of the West Indies." Stop by Martinique, the Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Trinidad,... more
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- Calypso Travels
- Artist:
  Lord Invader
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso developed in the 19th century as a fusion of the various styles of Carnival music in Trinidad. By the 1920s, calypso had evolved from ribald and stick-fighting songs into more political and... more
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- Junkanoo Band - Key West
- Artist:
  Junkanoo Band
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Even in the 21st century, the evolution of the word Junkanoo remains uncertain. One popularized theory suggests that the word is derived from an African prince, John Canoe, who gained control of an... more
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- Creole Songs of Haiti / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording combines vocal interpretations of Vodou (an Afro-Haitian religion) ceremonial songs and popular secular melodies by legendary Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist Emerante de Pradines... more
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